Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First he checked that he'd read the figure correctly. Then he quit his job as a hedge-fund manager in New York City, packed his bags and drove out to Seattle. Or, rather, his wife drove; Bezos was busy pecking out a business plan on his laptop...
Finally home! What a feeling! Preparing to step off the plane, waiting 20 minutes for the right airport bus to arrive and take me from the plane to the terminal, then going through the fiasco of smuggling my laptop through customs (only with the help of a friend of a friend of a friend who works for the Intelligence Service--otherwise I'd have had to pay 70% of the purchase price in import duties) and finally feeling the holes in the road through the shock system of my family's car. Unmistakably home, unmistakably Bulgaria...
...trouble of balancing the checkbook at the end of the month, and it gives you the option of transferring the money from wherever you want: mutual fund, money market, even an old-fashioned checking account. Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go for books, some for food and some...
This morning I went to Mott Hall, a school in Harlem, and met with sixth-graders who are using laptop computers. You have to see to believe how laptops have brought the classroom to life. I then went to the New York Public Library for a question-and-answer session with TV interviewer Charlie Rose...
Instead of Lamont's "Laptop Loge," students at Langdell can plug their portable PC into power and data jacks in cozy group study rooms or areas of the reading room. The set-up makes Langdell not only a welcoming old-school study space, but also a convenient work station...